User manual GAMES PC FLY!

[. . . ] Fly! Pilot Handbook Written by Peter Lert Original Illustrations by Peter Carpenter Technical Documentation by Greg Kramer Table of Contents Quick Start Reference . 53 Cessna 172R ­ Introduction and Tour . 283 ©1999 Gathering of Developers I, Ltd. The software and related manual for this product are copyrighted. [. . . ] "ON" is what you'd expect to be the normal mode, but they've pulled a fast one on you here: since current regulations require all aircraft to have not only the transponder but the altitude reporting equipment as well, your normal operating mode will be "ALT. " In this mode, the "raw altitude, " or flight level, being reported to the ground stations will be displayed on the left of the transponder. Note that this will not necessarily correspond to your altimeter reading unless the local pressure is 29. 92 in. and you've set the altimeter accordingly; it could be a couple of hundred feet off either way if the local altimeter setting is particularly high or low. (ATC's computers automatically take this into account). More likely, the only time you might use the "ON" position is if your altitude encoding system is way off, in which case the controller will tell you to "stop altitude squawk. " You might want to remember a couple of specific squawk codes, too. The emergency code is 7700, one to punch in anytime you're in real trouble (for example, an engine failure or other inflight emergency). Somewhat less frantic is 7600, the code to use when you've lost radio communications but are otherwise OK. If you can still receive but not transmit, controllers will often transmit to you "blind, " asking you to acknowledge by pressing your "ident" button. Finally, and relatively unlikely considering that this is a simulator, 7500 is the international code indicating "I've been hijacked, but don't really want to talk about it right now because someone is shoving the nasty end of an AK-47 into my ear. " ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) Although the Bendix-King one installed in our airplanes is a very nice modern unit, the ADF overall is actually a pretty archaic piece of equipment, dating from the 1930s. Also called a "radio compass, " the ADF can point its needle at any low-frequency station it can receive. In a sense, it's exactly the opposite of the VOR: while the VOR can show you where you are, but not which way you're pointing, the ADF can show you which way you're pointing, but not necessarily where you are. The ADF indicator has a movable compass card, which can be set by the knob at the 7 o'clock position. If you set your actual heading at the top of the dial, the head of the needle indicates the present bearing from you to the station, while the tail of the needle shows the radial from the station to you. . . but if you want it to read correctly, you'll have to reset it every time you change your heading. As you get deeper into the arcana of instrument flying, you'll find approaches based on non-directional beacons (NDBs), and unless you have an approach-qualified GPS receiver and an appropriately published "GPS overlay" approach chart, you'll need the ADF. Moreover, should you ever lose the services of your directional gyro (due perhaps to a vacuum failure, or one of the instrument itself), the ADF can provide a heading reference that's much more stable in rough air than the "whiskey compass" up in the windshield. Last but far from least, among the stations that fall within the tuning range of the ADF are regular AM broadcast outlets. Not only does this provide a very simple way of navigating if your destination is a town large enough to have a halfway powerful AM station - you can also listen to it!Many ADFs in high-performance airplanes gather dust except during the World Series playoffs or the Superbowl. Flight Instruction Flight Instruction 142 143 The Bendix-King ADF used in FLY!has standby and active frequencies that work exactly the same way as for the nav and comm radios. It also has a stopwatch that works the same way as the ones in the KX-155s, so now you have three timers at your disposal - say, one to show how soon you'll reach the next checkpoint, one to show when to switch fuel tanks, and one to remind you when to open your brown bag flight lunch. In fact, you really have four, since the ADF also has a flight timer that starts when you turn on the radio power (in fixed-gear airplanes) or when you lift off and retract the gear in folding-roller ones. The FLT/ET button switches back and forth between the two timers; in ET mode (it stands for "elapsed time, " not the little leathery guy who was always trying to phone home), the SET/RST button starts and stops the timer or, when held in, lets you preset it for count-down use, just like the ones in the comm radios. GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) Flight Instruction It's really a sign of the times that even the most basic airplane in FLY! [. . . ] Additionally, information contained in this SOFTWARE and the ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS is a trade secret of Owner for all purposes of the Freedom of Information Act or otherwise. Furthermore, this SOFTWARE is commercial computer software subject to limited use as set forth in any contract that may be entered into between the seller and the governmental entity. Owner owns, in all respects, the proprietary information and proprietary data found in the SOFTWARE and the ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS. Owner only sells this SOFTWARE and the ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS with Restricted Rights as defined in DFARS 52. 227-7013 (also found at 48 C. F. R. [. . . ]